nuttyxander

Sometimes the future really is a thing of the past, as in this case with the C64 version of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells. Stylus nominated it for their top ten rubbish video games featuring musicians a few years ago. I think it’s worth it for the state of the art visualisations alone.

Four hours of metadata parsing later… The initial look of the completed tag cloud compiled thanks to running last.fm‘s data over my music sure ain’t pretty. Thank $deity for wordle, cos they make it look far cuter. So I decided to start by listenning to the tracks at the intersection of electronic, mashup and folk. [...]

I’ve just downloaded last.fm‘s Boffin. Fortunately, as I can’t use it until it’s finished working it’s way through all of my media library it has pretty pictures to keep me happy, with a nice scrolling effect for images of new artists as it finds them.

At last, the start of posts about my favourite music I came across last year. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m3VJiocMfg I’ve been listening to Kelley Polar since his first album Love Songs Of The Hanging Gardens was reccomended to me by emusic. It was nice, but didn’t really hook me but his second album I Need You To Hold [...]

A rather wonderful bit from The Indelicates on the recession and where we’re headed. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv-oOwn6Ty0 You can’t go to rehab cos it costs too much Truly these are hard times but if they further invigorate the music scene and mean we’ll get more even vaguely political songs then I’m sold.